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Stroppy Git Award for Meaningless Twaddle 2026

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First of all… I’m sorry! For a full year I have not delighted my followers with a post. I can imagine the mental anguish this has caused, and I appreciate your forbearance. I’ve had not a single complaint, moan or remonstration, which speaks well for the good nature of Stroppy-lovers the world over.

Now to this year’s Stroppy. We certainly haven’t been short of meaningless twaddle, and I could have compiled the longest shortlist in the history of awarding. But I confess to favouring discretion over valour. If Donald Trump was willing to launch a trade war against Norway over not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, I asked myself, “What might he do to Linden Park?!”

The Nobel Committee probably had some lame excuse ready, like “How in God’s name could we give a peace prize to someone who’s arming the perpetrators of a genocide?” I can’t come up with any excuse not to give the Donald this year’s Stroppy Git Award for Meaningless Twaddle.

Photo credit: Associated Press [This is the FIFA cup, by the way, not the Stroppy.]

Hair

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Who is the most reviled man in the world at the moment? There are quite a few candidates, but I think a global vote would put Kim Jong Un at the top of the list: he of the unbecoming and widely derided hairstyle. (No, not that hairstyle, you’re thinking of Donald Trump.)

But what do I see as I walk the streets and the airport transit lounges, when I glance through the windows of barbers’ shops, when I see news clips on TV? Every male human under the age of 30 seems to want to emulate this hated man! Even little boys, for whom the choice of hairstyle is presumably made by their mothers, have shaved sides and bushy tops!

I’m old, I know, and out-of-touch. I’ve given up hoping that I’ll ever really understand the human race. But can anyone explain this bizarre phenomenon to me?

Trump

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I know, I know. It’s high time I made a pronouncement on the US presidential election. On this occasion I defer to another deep thinker, because he expresses my own thoughts more eloquently than I can express them myself.

Philip Welsby, my relation-by-marriage, has drawn my attention to a 10-minute talk by Sir Roger Scruton that was broadcast by the BBC and may still be heard at the BBC website. Sir Roger (pictured below) explains, dispassionately and succinctly, what went wrong for the US political class and why Donald Trump is President Elect. I found myself agreeing with everything in his talk and I recommend it.

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Donald Trump – In Trouble Again

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Like almost everyone else outside the Republican Party, I find myself staring in stunned disbelief at the popularity polls.  How could anyone consider Donald Trump to be in the Top Ten Million for consideration as the Leader of the Free World?

But I have to interpose my body between Mr Trump and the howls of protest that his latest reported remarks have drawn.  He said that refugees could be “the greatest Trojan horse of all time.”  Whatever the motives and prejudices that may underlie that statement, it is undeniably supported by two very obvious precedents.

First, US foreign policy has for many years been hostage to Zionist lobbyists, whose power depends on a Jewish population (only 2% nationally, but disproportionately influential) which derives in large part from past flows of refugees from persecution in Europe.

Second, the recent outbreak of sanity with respect to US-Cuban relations has been delayed for decades by the Cuban exile population – refugees from Castro and his communist regime, implacably opposed to détente.